ICE & CBP are terrorizing North Carolina immigrants. Read @tinavasquez.bsky.social’s story for @prismreports.org at bit.ly/melticenc detailing the current immigrant raids in the state & the powerful community resistance growing in response.

I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!

Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance. prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...

One of my family members lives in Charlotte, he called yesterday to let us know that ICE is hanging out at the Home Depot in the parking lot harassing contractors and their labor workers. He noticed it yesterday when he was inside Home Depot. People around Charlotte are pushing back.

Fantastic reporting from my comrade @tinavasquez.bsky.social on ongoing ICE actions in North Carolina.

Essential reporting from a @theflytrapmedia.com worker-owner at @prismreports.org (a great news org you should be supporting if you aren't already)!

Lord.

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

“Many of us are really scared, but we’re still showing up.” Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.

I LOVE YOU, NORTH CAROLINA. The South is nothing to fuck with!

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social 📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected] ⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address

You can read my reporting on the NC raids today. People of course are terrified, with many undocumented & mixed-status families staying home or otherwise laying low. But all around them community organizers, educators, faith leaders, and local residents are mobilizing to help. It is deeply moving.

I went home to Southeast L.A. to cover the immigration raids there. And this week I've covered the raids in my adopted home of NC. Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--will give you hope like speaking to immigrant organizers and locals fighting back.

Movement journalism isn't just a nice thing to have: It's essential to expose injustice, uplift movements, and share visions for our collective futures. Amazing @femmfeministe.bsky.social and I wrote about why resourcing journalism is important, especially right now! truthout.org/articles/the...

I've been covering the ICE raids here in NC, so please allow me this bit of frivolousness...

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Maybe I'm being too critical, but this NYT headline really grates on me. It assumes the reader doesn't know anyone on SNAP, or isn't on SNAP themselves. Which, I think, says a lot about who is writing the news and who the NYT sees as its audience.

So, the actual headline here is: In violation of a court order, the Trump administration plans to starve millions of families during the holidays—and it’s forcing states to comply

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

just a dead on example of how our flawed definition and conception of discrimination doesn’t stand up to scrutiny

Attention fellow Espooky Latinas: You have homework. Say hello to your next book obsession!

No, but seriously. These are screenshots from an actual DHS press release about this.

DAILY MEMO: 25 People Taken In Hectic Santa Ana Raids and More Full article lataco.com/daily-memo-n... @eltragon.bsky.social

"You have no rights in here." Read the harrowing testimony given by people held at ICE's Broadview detention center. ✍️ @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Travelers brace for airport chaos as flight cuts begin: 'People are just fed up'

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir. A cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps ICE with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've been a reporter a long time and I don't think I've ever seen a fellowship opportunity for a community photojournalist! So, if you have some funds, please do consider supporting @altavozlab.bsky.social in launching its Nick Oza Visual Fellowship:

I've been a reporter a long time and I don't think I've ever seen a fellowship opportunity for a community photojournalist! So, if you have some funds, please do consider supporting @altavozlab.bsky.social in launching its Nick Oza Visual Fellowship:

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

The timeline right now. Find the country trying to run itself into the ground

@tinavasquez.bsky.social  explores a little known Halloween subculture: Halloween 'Villaging', where grown adults make little Halloween villages to celebrate the holiday everyday.

Halloween was last Friday, but let's keep these 👻SPOOKY 👻 VIBES👻 going, shall we? We've been HAUNTING YOUR INBOX for a year now. Here's a round up our spookiest reads:

DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father 🧵 2 parts

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

I’m so happy for New York City tonight, and as a journalist I look forward to holding Mamdani accountable.

“In recent months, a small army of historians, librarians, scientists and other volunteers has fanned out across America’s national parks and museums to photograph and painstakingly archive cultural and intellectual treasures they fear are under threat.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

I learned this morning that @theflytrapmedia.com is fully funded for another year, thanks to all of you who subscribed, resubscribed, and donated. It's been quite a year and The Flytrap has been a bright spot.

My datebook for December 20, 2023, has a 9:15 appointment that just says 'Andrea.' I'm so happy she emailed me about 'starting some kind of feminist bloggy thing' and to be collaborating with such a kickass crew of comrades AND our wonderful community of readers.

Good morning everyone! We just want to express our gratitude for your vote of confidence in our work in the past two weeks. We are SO EXCITED to have another year of The Flytrap, and with pay for the founders. This is everything we've been working towards. THANK YOU!!!

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

PURCH THE MERCH this is also a great way to support your favorite writers / superstars

We've published so many great stories this year. It's honestly hard to pick a favorite but here are a few, starting with @tinavasquez.bsky.social's really fun, quirky reporting on the subculture of people who create Halloween villages.

Running a media organization takes a tremendous amount of resources. @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder and worker-owner Chrissy breaks some of them down here. (Of note is that the vast majority of our budget goes to freelancers!) Get 15% off a subscription to read and support indie feminist media.

Please forgive me for sharing my Halloween stories again. The night is upon us, after all…